The Case Against Identity Politics

Anybody who knows me knows I hate identity politics.
I’m going to tell you why you should hate it too. I’m going to incite racial-identity-politics-hatred (geddit?), and other kinds of identity-politics-hatred as well.
…by promoting R as an identifier you may encourage people to use R as a signal for group formation.
Humans like to divide [...]

The free market as the devil

This morning’s Today Programme included this gem (from author Adam Thorpe) in a discussion about Robin Hood:

In fact it’s ended up the novel is in the form of a Latin document translated and Hod, Robert Hod which is his name in the document is actually an extremely unpleasant kind of madman really who believes he [...]